Some people gathered in Huntington Beach, California, on the evening of Jan. 24 to pay tribute to Ashli Babbitt.
According to Team Tucker Carlson, the news program of Fox’s famous anchor Tucker Carlson, the legal team of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed at the Capitol on Jan. 6, issued on March 4 A first press release calling on Congress, police and those with knowledge of the shooting of Babbitt, a native of San Diego, S.C., who served in the Air Force for 14 years, to make the circumstances of Babbitt’s death public.
The first press release from Ashley Babbitt’s attorney
The press release reads, “The shooting of Ashley Babbitt by a hitherto unidentified U.S. Capitol police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unreasonable use of deadly force and violated Babbitt’s constitutional rights. It is clear from the video that Babbitt posed no danger to anyone, she was unarmed, did not assault anyone, did not threaten to harm anyone; and (the police officer) had no reason to shoot her.”
“Police officers may not use more force than is necessary to achieve a reasonable purpose, which is the commonly accepted standard for law enforcement. Babbitt was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 110 pounds, and a trained police officer could have arrested her with a pair of handcuffs. At the Time of the shooting, there were six armed officers near the side of the door through which Babbitt passed, some of whom had just left the door (stepping away from the door blocking access to the hallway to stand against the wall) while allowing the protesters to enter the door, others who were heavily armed standing among the protesters a short distance behind the door, and others at the other end of the hall standing casually, oblivious to the activities of Babbitt and the protesters around her unconcerned, all of these police officers could have assisted in Babbitt’s arrest if necessary. Given Babbitt’s 14 years of service in the Air Force, it is likely that she would have obeyed simple verbal orders and therefore no force would have been necessary.”
“However, the man (in plain clothes) who shot Babbitt (in the door) never attempted to arrest her, nor did he ask his colleagues to arrest her. Instead, he shot her (in the neck). Witnesses testified that the officer did not give Babbitt any verbal warning before shooting her. In fact, Babbitt was not even aware of the officer’s presence, as he was located in the doorway of the room on the other side of her view (in the recess of the wall).” A few hours later, Babbitt was confirmed dead.
It’s been two months since Jan. 6, but the public still doesn’t know who shot Babbitt, according to the Capitol, which says it has ordered the officer to go on leave. The attorney team questioned in a press release that “neither the Capitol Police nor any other government agency has provided an accounting of the facts surrounding the shooting; there has been no official explanation or justification for the deadly force used in this incident. This lack of transparency hinders the public scrutiny and review necessary to hold government officials accountable in a free society, and makes it difficult for Babbitt’s Family to seek justice for her.”
Terrell N. Roberts, Roberts and Woods, Babbitt’s legal team, said they will continue to investigate the matter and will take appropriate legal action when the investigation is complete.
Double standard
People can see the masked face of the man who shot Babbitt on video from the scene, and the police officer at the door had asked in a tone of disbelief, “You shot him?” But why is it still unknown who the man was and no investigation has been taken into the matter, as if nothing had happened. A song dedicated to Babbitt, “The Bolls That Will Save Our Land,” is available online.
The American Conservative Review compared the government’s attitude and approach to the Babbitt shooting to the three 2020 killings of black men: The first was the case of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25 of last year, when Floyd was called to a convenience store for using counterfeit money. He refused to enter the police car when the police tried to arrest him, and Floyd died while the police were in control of him. Several police officers were arrested immediately after the incident, and an autopsy report later indicated that Floyd had overdosed.
The second was in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 23 last year, Jacob Blake (Jacob Blake) for domestic violence was called to the police, when the police with a warrant for his arrest, Blake refused to comply, but walked straight to the car, intended to obtain a weapon in the car to resist, was shot in the back by police officers and died. The third case was the death of Breonna Taylor, who was accidentally shot by a stray bullet in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 13 last year. Taylor’s live-in boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was a drug dealer, and when police came to the house with a search warrant, Walker shot at the officers first, and the officers returned fire, resulting in the death of Taylor, who was shot inside the house.
All three of the above cases involved people of African descent, and all of them sparked national riots after the incidents. Police, prosecutors and courts were the first to intervene, and they invariably arrested the officers involved in the cases and sent them to justice as quickly as possible.
But what about the case of Ashley Babbitt on Jan. 6? She was a white woman who served 14 years in the defense of the Republic; did her Life not matter? And Babbitt was exercising her constitutional right to be a citizen, without violence, and was shot and killed in the absence of any threat to the police.
Some netizens left comments after the press release, questioning whether there was a mass armed riot at the Capitol as propagated by the left? Netizen Moore believes that if it was a black man who was shot, the Capitol would have been completely destroyed ……BLM and ANTIFA would likely have reduced it to ashes along with many other buildings and properties around it.
Netizen Jester commented that the riots, arson and murders that took place throughout the country last summer and fall could be called “mostly peaceful protests,” so it would be unwise to define the Capitol incident as a riot intended to overthrow the government. Some people believe that the man who shot Babbitt in civilian clothes was not a Capitol police officer, and fear that he will “kill himself” one day or have an accident that will leave people unaware of why he violated the law.
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